Bug Description

gdb /usr/local/bin/inkscape
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This is temporarily fixed in SVN (rev. 19673). The crash was introduced by commit #1530 of the 2geom library, which I reverted in Inkscape SVN. Even though the crash is gone, I'm not closing this bug in order to draw further attention to the underlying issue.